[158] 'Monroes:' Dr Monroe, physician to Bedlam Hospital.
[159] 'Oldfield, Daitineuf:' two celebrated gluttons mentioned
formerly.
[160] 'Tooting, Earl's Court:' two villages within a few miles of
London.
[161] 'Composing songs:' Burns imitates this in the 'Vision'--
'Stringin' blethers up in rhyme,
For fules to sing.'
[162] 'Stephen:' Mr Stephen Duck.
[163] 'Servile chaplains:' Dr Kenett, who wrote a servile
dedication to the Duke of Devonshire, to whom he was chaplain.
[164] 'Abbs Court:' a farm over against Hampton Court.
[165] 'Townshend's turnips:' Lord Townshend, Secretary of State
to Georges the First and Second. When this great statesman retired from
business, he amused himself in husbandry, and was particularly fond of
the cultivation of turnips; it was the favourite subject of his
conversation.
[166] 'Bu----:' Bubb Doddington.
[167] 'Oglethorpe:' employed in settling the colony of Georgia.
See Boswell's 'Johnson.'
[168] 'Belinda:' in 'The Rape of the Lock.'
[169] 'Tips with silver:' occurs also in the famous moonlight
scene in the 'Iliad'--
'Tips with silver every mountain's head.'
[170] 'Adieu!' how like Burns's lines, beginning--
"But when life's day draws near the gloaming,
Farewell to vacant, careless roaming!" &c.
[171] 'Donne:' Pope, it is said, imitated Donne's 'Satires' to
show that celebrated men before him had been as severe as he.
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